McCain Sandbags Obama

September 24, 2008 · Filed Under 2008 Election, Barack Obama, John McCain, Media · 1 Comment 

What a brilliant move!

Dropping like a lead balloon in the polls, your campaign manager was taking the money from Freddie Mac that you said he wasn’t, VP unable to speak to press…

What to do?  What to do?

The answer was right there.  Wait to return Obama’s private 8:30AM private call about the two of you showing unity on the economic front.  Wait until 2:30 PM.   Then without letting him know you’ll be going public with your debate bailout, you announce thirty minutes later, just in time for Sean Hannity’s show, that you’re bailing and wonder out loud if Obama will bail -for the sake of the country - with you.

Y’ set him up, then went yard on him.

You da man.

Now what?

Developing

Steve

Debate Forecast

September 23, 2008 · Filed Under 2008 Election, Barack Obama, John McCain, Media · Comment 

Nothing different than it’s been for the past three presidential campaigns as media and John McCain campaign forecasters are calling for a severe low expectation for the Republican candidate, leading to a deluge of mistakes, misleads and loose generalizations by McCain that will be either ignored or rationalized as “doing the best he can.”

Meanwhile, as always, the Democratic candidate, this time, Barack Obama, will be expected to be articulate, detailed and perfect with any deviation from that prediction throwing the debate into the Republican camp.

MSNBC will call it for Obama.

FoxNews for McCain.

The debate will be followed the press criticizing itself and saying next time they’ll do a better job.

And America will once again hail their Democracy as working just dandy.

Steve

With Friends Like These…

September 17, 2008 · Filed Under 2008 Election, Barack Obama, John McCain, Media, Sarah Palin · 2 Comments 

When  you spend more time on defense than on offense it’s not as easy to score.  When it’s your own team who is applying the hits, you just might want to consider folding the franchise.

McCain’s top economic advisor, Phil Gramm, advised the we’re just “a nation of whiners,” and that our recession is only “mental.”  Then, as the right is wont to do, he added that, ”Misery sells newspapers Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.”

LEHMAN BROTHERS FOLDS!  MARKET PLUMMETS OVER 500 POINTS!

Damn you, you misery selling newspapers!

Top McCain advisor Carly Read more

Not An Onion Headline of The Day: More Americans Believe Palin Ready To Be President Than Not.

August 31, 2008 · Filed Under 2008 Election, Barack Obama, John McCain, Media · 20 Comments 

Obama supporters might want to put your “Palin is McCain’s last coffin nail” celebration on hold.  Liberal/progressive/Democratic-leaning blogs had exploded with glee, hailing John McCain’s choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice President to be the worst political move since Michael Dukakis decided that driving a tank looked presidential and that she would more likely replace Tina Fey on 30 Rock than Dick Cheney at 1600 Pennsylvania.

Arianna Huffington called the move ”clearly a Hail Mary pass,” suggesting “Maybe an anxious nation can offer John McCain a do-over.” Jewish Journal editor, Rob Eshman, advanced the thought that her support for Pat Buchanan’s Presidential run could alienate Jewish voters and “cause ‘Israel First’ Jews, who seemed to be pretty much done with Obama, to take a second look.” Even noted blogger Read more

BILL KRISTOL COMPLIMENTS OBAMA SPEECH, SUFFERS POSSIBLE CAREER-THREATENING INJURY

August 29, 2008 · Filed Under 2008 Election, Fox News, John McCain, Kind of Satire, Media, Satire · 6 Comments 

In what were a few frightening moments for Fox News, rescue squad doctors were rushed to the FoxNews broadcasting platform at Denver’s Invesco Stadium where FoxNews contributor and Weekly Standard editor, Bill Kristol, had suffered what onlookers had feared was some sort of brain aneurysm or stroke.

“We had first thought Bill had been dipping into the FoxNews convention punch Read more

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